George Wulff

George (Yuri Viktorovich) Wulff (Russian: Георгий (Юрий) Викторович Вульф) (22 June 1863, Nizhyn (Russian Empire, nowadays Ukraine) – 25 December 1925, Moscow) was a Russian crystallographer.

For the Wulff net projection, see Stereographic projection. For Wulff construction, see Wulff construction.

Ukrainian envelope commemorating the 150th anniversary of George Wulff

The Wulff construction,[1] Wulff net,[2][3] Wulff-Bragg's condition and the mineral wulffite are named after him. Wulff was one of the first to experiment with X-ray crystallography.[4]

References

1. G Wulff, Zeitschrift fur Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 34, 5/6, pp 449-530, 1901.
2. Marc De Graef; Michael E. McHenry (15 November 2012). Structure of Materials: An Introduction to Crystallography, Diffraction and Symmetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-139-56047-4.
3. Бармасов Алесандр Викторович (2009). Курс общей физики для природопользователей. Молекулярная физика и термодинамика. БХВ-Петербург. p. 452. ISBN 978-5-94157-731-6.
4. Urusov, V. S. (2015). "Role of Russian scientists in the discovery of X-ray crystallographic analysis in the beginning of the scientific revolution of the 20th century". Journal of Structural Chemistry. 55 (7): 1200–1205. doi:10.1134/S0022476614070026. ISSN 0022-4766.